Tracking Friends the Google Way — New Mobile-Device Feature Lets Users Share Their Every Move With Each Other — For the past week, I've been stalking my sister, my boyfriend and my boss. They've also been stalking me, and we still like one other. — All four of us have been using …

See where your friends are with Google Latitude — How often do you find yourself wondering where your friends are and what they're up to? It's a pretty central question to our daily social lives, and it's precisely the question you can now answer using Google Latitude.

Google and Big Ideas — I love Om Malik and respect him greatly. I'm hoping to corner him for lunch sometime to pick his brain on ways that Google could improve. But today he happened to do a tweet that caught my attention just as my morning caffeine was kicking in.

Google & The Big Ideas — Sometimes, a tweet is just a tweet. Occasionally it is just a start of a healthy debate! — Earlier today, when I read about Google launching a mobile version of Tasks. I was amazed by the attention being focused on essentially a to-do list website.

Facebook's 5th Birthday — Tomorrow is Facebook's 5th birthday. This is a happy occasion for Facebook, but much more significant to the Facebook team is the fact that over 150 million people around the world are using Facebook to connect with the people in their lives.

Google's Clout Grows as Tech Initiatives Take Shape — When a group of chief executives visited the White House last week to talk about stimulus with President Barack Obama, Google Inc.'s Eric Schmidt wasn't hard to spot, perched in a prime seat on the new president's left side.

YouTube's January Fair Use Massacre — Privacy info. This embed will serve content from youtube.com. — This is what it's come to. Teenagers singing “Winter Wonderland” being censored off YouTube. — Fair use has always been at risk on YouTube, thanks to abusive DMCA takedown notices sent …

Apple to Allow Background Tasks on iPhone? — With the release of iPhone Firmware 2.2.1, many were left wondering what had become of the Push notification system that Apple had announced at the Worldwide Developer's Conference back in June. — While Apple had originally set a September 2008 deadline …

Firefox 3 Release Notes — Check out what's new, the known issues and frequently asked questions about the latest version of Firefox. As always, you're encouraged to tell us what you think, either using this feedback form or by filing a bug in Bugzilla.

Search with your voice on Android — Don't want to type a long query, like “U.S. economic stimulus plan”, on your T-Mobile G1? Just say it. Or, perhaps you'd like to browse the web without sliding out the keyboard? Well now you can. For those of you with a G1 in the US …

New ways to label with “Move to” and auto-complete — One of the features that makes Gmail different is its use of labels instead of folders. Sure, labels can serve pretty much the same purpose — they can help organize mail or flag messages for follow up.

GameFly ‘Shacks’ Up — Online videogame rental company buys Shacknews. — GameFly is buzzing in a new direction. The game-by-mail service has acquired Shacknews, owner of a leading videogame news and community site, along with its sister digital download site for an undisclosed amount.

Ma.gnolia Using FriendFeed to Restore Users' Data — Necessity is the mother of invention, but it helps to have an open API, too. — Last Friday, social bookmarking site Ma.gnolia suffered a major server meltdown, losing the bulk of its user data as well as its backup.

LinkedIn launches German site to take the fight to Xing — LinkedIn is launching a dedicated site for Germany where local - and floated - business network Xing predominates. The Guardian reports that LinkedIn had significant growth with sites for Spain and France last year - 200,000 users in two months and France hit 700,000.

BlackBerry Pearl 8130 Flip gets pictured — Well, it's no Curve 8900 and it's certainly no Bold but BlackBerry fans with a need for buttons will be happy to learn that the Pearl 8130 Flip should be landing soon on Verizon shelves near you. This SureType clam shell is probably among RIM's …

New Singularity University may overpromise the infinite — Tuesday saw the launch of a university that claims it will prepare its students for an impending technological singularity. The challenges of doing so, however, became quickly apparent when the university's server exceeded its monthly quota and went offline for a few hours.

Microsoft launches new product for first time via Webcast — In front of a Web audience of 11,000 and a couple of dozen employees seated in a small Redmond TV studio, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop launched the latest version of the company's communications offering for businesses Tuesday morning.

PSD2 Compliance in Zoho Books — The Revised Payment Services Directive, also known as the PSD2, is a set of regulatory guidelines laid down by the European Union (EU) for finance, banking, and payment service companies.

Google Fi - a phone plan, by Google — We felt that most phone plans just weren't made with you in mind. So that's why we built Google Fi with features that real people actually want. Click to learn more.